Baby names you wouldn't choose because of regional accents

[bez91]

Just for fun really... no offence intended!

Is there any names you think sound better in a certain UK accent and if you'd avoid using them because they sound awful in some accents?

Example. We live in the midlands and did quite like the name Leo, it would just be that pronounced short and sweet however in-laws are from West Yorkshire who stereotypically like to hold onto their o's. So it would be Lee-oooooooooooooo

I also think Rafe sounds the best in a north east accent!

Interested to hear more!

The name Pearl, sounds identical to the word peril in my accent!

Lark. Live in a northern town we don't have the local accent. Poor lamb would get Laaaaaaaaaaakkkk forever more. If only I'd married a scotsman, eh.

How can Emma sound like 'I am' that's totally baffled me!

Ehm = I'm

Emma - I'm a

@bez91

Tania/Tanya

Up north it would be Tan-ya and south Tarn-ya

That's weird, I'm from the south and would say 'Tan-ya' (not Tarn-ya) probably because I knew one at primary school who was a Tan-ya :-)

@troppibambini

My step daughter loved Marni for a girl but lives in Wigan and couldn't have it because family would call her our Marni a lot (ar-Marni).

That's hysterical

btw where's the laughing emoji?

@MrsKypp

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Wanted Ethel or Thelma for DD1. Until DP, as Essex as they come, said them.

Hearing Katy B singing “sitting at the bar with my friend Oliviaaargh” in Easy Please Me has totally put me off the name. I live in South London, I can just imagine that pronunciation being yelled across the playground. Same with Aliciaargh, Taniaargh, or anything else with an -ia ending.

(If you haven’t heard the song, think “Biancaaargh” from EastEnders).

Anything with a th is out in the South East - too risky. I was gutted when we had to take Arthur off the table for my son when I realised my husband can't actually hear or say th. He genuinely can't hear the difference between a th or a f.

@1940s

Londoner and couldn't use Ottilie or Otto as the T's are a big risk of being dropped and would butcher the name!

Also Cockney rhyming slang renders some names useless like Toby (Toby Jug- Mug)

Exactly the same reason I won’t use Harriet. I really like Hattie for short too but that would sound even worse!

Snap, Scuba.

I can’t my head around what the dropped Ts sound like ?!

@ArthurShelbysTash

I love Hester. I live in the north east but am not a native. They drop their "h". I do not love Ester.

I've never heard people in the North East drop their H.

If i lived in areas where people pronounced A as ER there are lots of names I'd discount.

Emma, Hannah, Sarah, Ava, Bella

not

Emmer, Hanner, Sarer, Aver, Beller.

^As someone has already mentioned Carl in Scotland. Impossible for most of us to say without calling the poor bloke Carol.

Also in Dundee Emma would be an unfortunate name to have as it sounds like "I am" in the Dundee accent.^

Came here to say the same thing! I worked in Dundee with an unfortunate Emma Payne. I loved the name Emma but couldn't use it because of that and the way my MIL (from South of England) would put a random R on to the end of it so it sounded like Emmar

In my part of N Ireland quite a few (although by no means all) people pronounce Jack and Jake exactly the same. I had a relative once who was really irritated when someone 'called the baby Jack but gave it a ridiculous spelling. She spells it J-A-K-E, did you ever hear anything so daft?'.

I spent hours trying to explain that they were two different names.

I wanted Valentina for our DD, which sounds lovely in an English accent. However, we live in Australia and it sounds ugly and quite grating in an Australian accent.

My sister wanted Kitty - but she lives in West Yorkshire and didn’t like the ki-ee pronunciation (that’s ki as it would be said in kick and ee as it would be said in fee)

I couldnt have Harriet because my saaaf laaandan husband would have called her (Hatty) 'ah-ee'

@RosieLemonade

I can’t my head around what the dropped Ts sound like ?!

Imagine Otto but being pronounced like 'uh-oh' or Natalie as Na-aleee very quickly almost as one consonant

Leo sounds like Eeyore round here.

Blair also a bit of a risk. (Blur)

I teach a child named Carl. He hates that I make it into two syllables with a rolled R in the middle. I can’t help it! The local accent here omits TH. My own named is mangled...

I love the name Theo, but I’m Irish and a lot of our regional accents don’t pronounce the “th” sound. Hearing my child called “Tio” would drive me mad 😂.

Similarly had to veto anything ending with T, as the general Dublin accent drops them all the time. Violeh, Mahh, it just wouldn’t work!